Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong

Being real about being real...the joy of being both real and optimistic at the same time. Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com HAPPY New Year and welcome to #JoyfulJanuary 2019! Nemo’s definition of Joy: the unabashed and unrestrained expression of self As the new year starts, and we’re off wishing each other a happy new year, let’s slow down to explore what it would take to really experience happiness throughout the year and joy throughout the month of January. Game on! Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com The Joy of being Uncomfortable! Here are 3 questions to think through with this based on our Discover -> Embrace -> Leverage framework. **Discover** How is your current comfort-zone impacting: a) Your goals b) your vision of possibility and c) how you celebrate and value youturself for this year? (includes what you charge for your offerings, the echelon of clients and client problems you take on, your salary, and career trajectory) **Embrace** What would change for you in life and business if you allowed yourself to be just 30% more uncomfortable where it truly mattered? **Leverage** What is one area and one goal where you would commit to being up to 30% more uncomfortable? Leave a comment below with your thoughts on any of the above! #worldjoy #joyfuljanuary #pianeers #nextlevel Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Let’s open a conversation: “Finding your voice vs Freeing your voice” CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURES Here’s how to play: 🤾‍♀️Comment below with your thoughts on what this distinction means to you, 🎂Comment below with a question that comes to mind when confronted with this distinction, 🏋️‍♀️Share a story that illustrates this distinction for you, 👣Share something you are working on where this distinction applies either personally or professionally, 💃Share which one of these you would choose as your path to your next level and why, 🦚New!! Choose to free your voice now by joining a live facilitated small-group discussion on Tuesday Jan 22nd at 630 pm EST. Comment "free my voice" or send me a message through any means to be sent the video conversation details. CONTEXT: WE SPEAK OUR WORLD INTO EXISTENCE Powerful communication is a hallmark skill for Pioneer Leaders. Your voice "speaks" to your vision, to who you are and what you stand for, and to how you choose to create a model of your future in the present. Through our language, when we speak (write,sing, etc) something we give it life. From there, it shapes our present which shapes our future. TO FIND IMPLIES SOMETHING IS LOST... What’s been coming up with my clients is language around "finding" the voice. This suggests that it’s something external and out of their grasp. It’s also a commonly used phrase, so it leads to common results. TO FREE ACKNOWLEDGES IT WAS ALWAYS YOURS TO BEGIN WITH I choose the distinction of "Freeing" your voice to restore power and ownership back to you immediately. You already have your voice. It’s within you and has always been. We’ve just learned how to trap it within a cage of convention that prevents that voice from being let loose on the world - even if you know exactly what it is you’d want to be saying (writing, creating, painting, etc). FREEING YOU VOICE CAN HAPPEN IN AN INSTANT The work of a Pioneer leader is simply to let that voice free. Heads up: when first unleashed it will likely be raw. That is OK and just part of the process. As you free it up more and more, you’ll continue to refine it. And from there, once you have tamed your free voice, you can evolve it and let it grow. There’s more coming to mind, and I choose to stop here. FROM INSIGHT TO APPLICATION: YOU INVITATION My voice is telling me in this moment to host a conversation and exploration around "Freeing your Voice" for you and other Pianeers. Let’s do it this Tuesday, Jan 22 at 630 pm EST over zoom video conference! Comment "FREE MY VOICE" or just let me know you are coming through a message. WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT AS A RESULT OF JOINING Honestly, expect nothing. Expecting anyone else to provide the result is akin to the external focus of finding your voice. You choose how you want to play. This is specifically designed for you to challenge you, to give you space to grow exponentially, to play outside of your comfort, and to be supported along the way. We create the environment, you create the results. If one person shows up, you’ll get coachee by me. If 5 show up, you will get coached by me and also benefit from learning through others. And if there’s even more interest, you’ll get to explore through small-group facilitated discussions where you’ll both free your voice and contribute to a unique set of Pioneer leaders doing the same. This will not be a teaching webinar - there’s enough information out there. This is a learning experience facilitated through conversations - it’s about application not information. No prep needed and I’m waiving forms this time. If you choose to join and play, put yourself in a place where you can speak openly, honestly, and with focus. Because the focus is you. Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

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Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Appreciating inclusion by appreciating authenticity. Context: There’s a paradox involved between Diversity and Inclusion. There can be a COST as an individual to be AUTHENTIC in a non-inclusive environment. There’s also little/no return on an INCLUSIVE environment that doesn’t cultivate authenticity. Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube

Christine is an intuitive business & sales mentor for coaches, consultants, start ups and entrepreneurs. She is a featured trainer on LinkedIn Learning and creator of the "Quiet Selling" method. Christine has over 15 years sales leadership and strategy with a wide range of companies from start-ups to publicly traded companies including AOL, Yahoo! and LiveRail (acquired by Facebook). Over the course of her career she has sold over $100 Million in products and services and taught over 80,000 students through her online courses. www.soulfulselling.com

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Fitting out vs fitting in vs belonging Sharing some real-time reflections after rereading my high school yearbook. tl ;dr - many of us try to combat the loneliness in not belonging by “fitting-in”. On the other side of the same coin is the opposite-but-equal approach of “fitting out”. If fitting-in involves you making choices to not stick out in order to be accepted, fitting out involves you making choices specifically to stick out and this “not need” (haha) to be accepted. More clarity forthcoming as I gain more awareness and insight around it.

I'm thrilled to introduce Dr. Sarah Coxon to the Outliers, Pioneers, Maverick tribe. The two of us engage in a coaching conversation around hustle, flow, and the source of energy that drives both. Questions for consideration: - How were Nemo and Sarah being that allowed for the conversation to go to deeper levels as it progresses? - What is the equivalent of "bad hustle" and where in your life are you operating from that  place? - What would you gain if you could shift the driving source behind it?   Heyo - Nemo Ashong here. I'm thrilled to serve you through this video! I lead a tribe of people who identify as Outliers (one of the only), Pioneers (one of the first), and/or Mavericks (one of a kind) stop settling at the corner of "fitting-in" & "holding back" and start creating at their unique and abundant frontier that lies beyond "belonging" and "possibility". When people choose to have experiences with me, it comes with playing at a higher level than you've ever done in the past. And that's exciting! If you're ready to take on your next mountain in your business/career or want a sherpa as you travel through the unknown wilderness of an impossible goal, then we should talk. 👉 Click here to subscribe: https://nemoashong.com/youtube -- ADDITIONAL LEVELS OF SERVICE -- 🎤 OUTLIERS, PIONEERS, AND MAVERICKS PODCAST ▶︎ https://nemoashong.com/podcast 🙌 SAY HELLO ▶︎ INSTA: https://nemoashong.com/instagram (@nemoashong) ▶︎ FACEBOOK: https://nemoashong.com/facebook ▶︎ YOUTUBE: https://nemoashong.com/youtube ▶︎ COMMUNITY: https://nemoashong.com/community Visit NemoAshong.com for more, and subscribe to the Nemo Ashong YouTube channel to get new thinking tools and framewoks from me daily: https://nemoashong.com/youtube CONTACT: nemo [at] Nemoashong [dot] com

Listen to the full episode here https://empjoyment.com Please please please share one of your gifts with the world today! I get excited about how the world would be if we all were valued for our unique strengths and our differences! Watch and Subscribe on YouTube for more resources for your Pioneer Leadership journey: https://empjoyment.com/youtube